How to remove symbolic link?

Linux and Unix-Like Red Hat
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this is my current code,

[root@localhost ~]# ln -s /lib64/
[root@localhost ~]# ls -lrth
total 80K
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  12K Jul  6  2012 post-install
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  552 Jul  6  2012 post-install.log
-rw-------. 1 root root 1.5K Aug 21  2012 anaconda-ks.cfg
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Aug 21  2012 Videos
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Aug 21  2012 Templates
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Aug 21  2012 Public
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Aug 21  2012 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Aug 21  2012 Music
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Aug 21  2012 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Aug 21  2012 Documents
-rw-r-----. 1 root root  12K Aug 25  2012 hp-check.log
drwx------. 2 root root 4.0K Aug 25  2012 Desktop
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4.0K Sep 29  2012 db2expc.rsp
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Sep 29  2012 isus
drwxrwxr-x. 3 root root 4.0K Sep 30  2012 IBM_TEMP
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Oct  5  2012 syslogmessages
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   20 Apr 26 16:33 libexpat* -> /usr/lib64/libexpat*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    7 Apr 26 16:38 lib64 -> /lib64/

so how do I remove symbolic links>

thanks

2

Is there some reason why you don't want to use the obvious?:

rm lib64 'libexpat*'
3 
[root@localhost ~]# rm lib64
rm: remove symbolic link `lib64'? yes

resolved.

the symbolic link is linking to /lib64. if say I delete the directory and not the symbolic link, it will be catastrophe

4

The unlink() system call and the rm utility (which uses the unlink() system call to remove files) act on symbolic links, not the files pointed to by symbolic links.

Furthermore, unless you use the -r option to rm, rm won't remove directories.